The story of the fraudulent paper showing a link between the MMR vaccine and autism continues to unfold. The British Medical Journal, which originally published the paper by disgraced researcher, Andrew Wakefield, only to later retract it, now reports that Wakefield had devised a scheme to make a substantial profit from the scare that he correctly anticipated would arise from the paper. Steven Clark University of Wisconsin
The BMJ reports that Wakefield planned, even before the study was finished, to profit from selling diagnostic tests and by making his own, "safer" vaccine. Steven Clark University of Wisconsin
Wakefield, a medical doctor, has been banned from practicing medicine in Great Britain. Steven Clark University of Wisconsin
via www.bmj.com
Depending on the severity of the condition, autistic children will respond to situations with incorrect or unfeeling emotions, resist sharing or other interactions with others their age, and attach to others less readily.
Posted by: Autism Symptoms | February 17, 2011 at 04:26 AM